Rosa Brooks, radical law professor and former op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times, has joined the Obama administration as advisor to Michelle Flournoy, the undersecretary of defense for policy.

Ms. Brooks, known for her scathing attacks on common sense and the Bush administration, is expected to play a major role in influencing U.S. policy. At the LA Times her stock in trade was comparing President Bush to Adolf Hitler. A harsh critic of the war on terror, Brooks once referred to al-Qaeda as an “obscure group of extremist thugs” that simply got lucky on 9/11.

Her previous experience includes serving as a senior adviser to Harold Koh while he was Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor for President Clinton, and throwing hand grenades on such rarely watched cable news productions such as the Rachel Maddow Show and Countdown with Keith Olbermann. In addition to holding various academic positions, which undoubtedly prepared her for a key post at America’s military nerve center, Brooks also served as special counsel to the president at the Open Society Institute, a front organization for George Soros’s global world government campaign.

Before leaving for the Pentagon, Ms. Brooks wrote an LA Times column in which she called for a government bailout of the ailing newspaper industry. “If we’re willing to use taxpayer money to build roads, pay teachers and maintain a military; if we’re willing to bail out banks and insurance companies and failing automakers, we should be willing to part with some public funds to keep journalism alive too.” Someone forgot to tell her that U. S. print journalism died a long time ago, and we are simply witnessing a very long funeral. Seemingly unaware of the First Amendment, Brooks wants the government to issue “licenses” to “encourage robust and independent reporting and commentary…”

Critics like Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, have pointed out the dangers in government media involvement. “The day that the government gets involved in the news media you see the end of the democratic process, because an independent news media is absolutely essential to the success of a democracy,” remarked Bozell.

Brooks, however, points to other “democracies” that provide significant government support, and cites Canada and Britain as prime examples of governments that subsidize public outlets. Unfortunately, she forgot to cite such shining examples of state subsidized media as North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela.

Michael E. Telzrow is Executive Director of the National Railroad Museum and a Contributor to The New American magazine.

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danwhitehead1 said:

	Again, no surprise Doesn't scum always rise to the top of a stagnant pond?
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April 24, 2009
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Thomas Paine said:

Good and Bad JBS, needs to stay above the "Rush Limbaugh I hate liberal talk". Remember we hate Fascist Government, whether Republican or Democrat. Some of what she says is right on: Bush/Nazi's, and terrorist as terrorists that got lucky. Remember half of our fight is against the Bush warrantless phone tapping, torture of innocent victims, expansionist Military industrial Establishment, etc. Our reporting needs to stay above Right vs. Left, as that is want the NWO wants. Divide and Conquer.

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danwhitehead1 said:

	All I can say - - - - - - is I'm thankful that I'll most likely be dead before this terrifying regime completes a full term.
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April 24, 2009
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Michale Telzrow said:

... Mr. Paine - It's not an issue of (r) vs. (d). You may not like Bush, and yes he did much to move us along the path to the NWO, he was a profligate spender, an abject failure when it came to immigration, an interventionist, etc., but the comparisons to Hitler are historically absurd. It speaks to a level of extremism on the part of Brooks that should give anyone pause. Furthermore, you should be more alarmed that an unqualified extremist ideologue has been appointed to a key Pentagon position - not to mention her call for a government bailout of the establishment print media. The fact of the matter is that she is a leftist ideologue much like the current president, and that does not bode well for the country. Bush is out of office - let's turn our efforts to slowing down the current socialist.

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April 24, 2009
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danwhitehead1 said:

The original Thomas Paine I need to reread "Common Sense" and "The Age of Reason" as it seems to me the the Thomas Paine of the American Revolution didn't worry too much about being nice; though I believe, unfortunately, that he was also a bit of a socialist. Telling folks to "be nice" or to insinuate Nazism or Limbaughism are two very typical old nags trotted out by Establishment lackeys/sympathizers.

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SCHNORCHEL said:

Reminds me of Morton Halperin Remember Morton Halperin, a member of the CFR? He was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Human Rights and Democracy. Now we have Harold Koh, Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. Today, Halperin is seen at the George Soros site http://www.soros.org/initiativ.../halperin, as a consultant of the "Open Society Institute." The Open Society Institute is Billionaire George Soros' subversive think tank for the purpose of developing policies for One-World Government and border-less states. George Soros is well-known for his financial capers. Less well-known is that he is also very active in his other subversive think tanks, both in the US and in Europe. He is also an old social roue with the women. We can see, by connecting the dots, how Rosa Brooks fits into the picture. I get the impression that the Obama Administration is full of these termites, much more even than was the case in the Roosevelt Administration.

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Izzy said:

	RE: Dan's comment Thank you for mentioning that Thomas Paine was as, you put it, "bit of a socialist." Some of his conservative cheerleaders, like Glenn Beck, don't understand that about him. In "Rights of Man," Paine advocates using tax money to educate the poor and to provide a type of welfare-social-security net for aging workers.
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MarkGlen said:

Bush's Internationalist vision I think Bush got his internationalist dream or the outline for action from a Foreign Affairs article that was published back in 1994. My Congressman of the 19th district of Texas liked the article. I didn't and still don't. The following is the edited verson as it appeartd in the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: CNN.com reported, 2/22/09, that P.M. Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom said that the world needs a “Global New Deal” to get the world out of the enonomic mess it is in. This reminds me of a letter the AJ printed for me back on Jan. 1, 1994. With some minor editing it is as follows: NAFTA And Beyond “An article in Foreign Affairs, a publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, Jan./Feb., 1994, titled “Time for a Global New Deal” by Jerry Collingsworth, F. William Goold and Pharis F. Harvey said: “In the future, achieving real economic growth in the U.S., will require policies to attain coordinated growth in the global economy.” NAFTA is a beginning. What we need, they think, as the next step into one worldom is a tax/spend/tax world bureaucratic authority. Their reasoning is that the class of workers to be created by NAFTA and also laborers of other Third World countries will not earn enough money to buy all the TVs, VCRs, Hula Hoops and Pet Rocks that will be manufactured by Third World counties. Now, this threesome is convinced that global socialism, or “a Global New Deal” is the plan that will achieve “real economic growth in the U.S.” The global New Deal will do for the world what the New Deal has done for America. It will break the world. This “Global New Deal” will require world government.

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Thomas Paine said:

	Thomas Paine debate I am glad that Thomas Paine has people re-learning their history. (no insult intended to Birchers). I want to emphasis the Thomas Paine of Common Sense, not the later Thomas Paine that messed up things in the French Revolution. Common Sense is what we need to focus on, as our government marches toward Monarchy/Fascism.
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